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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
Alex Gibney
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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
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I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those Think different posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King was, How do you make the world a better place?
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I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.
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Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.
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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.
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I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.
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The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.
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The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
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I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.
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The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.
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No one likes documentaries.
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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
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If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.
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Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
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With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
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I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
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Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.
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It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
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You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
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Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?
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